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![A distant view of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear power plant](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_0309-ukraine-power-plant-400x300.jpg)
“One Day Our Luck Will Run Out”: Ukraine Nuclear Plant Loses Power Again
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost all off-site power for the sixth time in a year amid the Russian war on Ukraine.
![A family examines the remains of a Russian tank destroyed at the beginning of the war as the first anniversary of the war between Russia and Ukraine nears, in Bucha, Ukraine, on February 22, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_0223-ukraine-400x300.jpg)
Chomsky: A Stronger NATO Is the Last Thing We Need as Russia-Ukraine War Turns 1
It is becoming increasingly obvious that this is now a U.S./NATO-Russia war via Ukraine, Noam Chomsky argues.
![View of the United Nations logo as the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons takes place in New York City on August 1, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_0206-united-natiions-disarmament-400x300.jpg)
Is Withdrawing From Treaties the Nuclear Weapons Industry’s Business Plan?
The manufacture and maintenance of nuclear weapons is a uniquely profitable business monopoly with a guaranteed market.
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Germany and US Agree to Send Tanks to Ukraine Despite Concern of War Escalation
A German lawmaker says the U.S. is pushing a proxy war and underestimating the threat of Putin’s nuclear Russia.
![A woman cries into the Ukrainian flag](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/2022_1116ukraine-400x300.jpg)
Chomsky: Options for Diplomacy Decline as Russia’s War on Ukraine Escalates
There is still hope if the U.S. withdraws from its insistence on sustaining the war to weaken Russia and defeat Putin.
![Protesters demanding an end to fossil fuel dependence that enables wars, including Russia's current war in Ukraine, demonstrate during the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 12, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1440937294-400x300.jpg)
Ukraine War Is Driving “a Gold Rush to New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure”
The Ukraine war has also had direct effects on climate change that will continue even after the fighting ends.
![60 Years After Cuban Missile Crisis, Activists Demand World Leaders “Defuse Nuclear War”](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/10/seg3-NoNukes-400x300.jpg)
Nuclear Threats Escalate as NATO and Russia Plan Nuclear War Games
Activists are calling for diplomacy and demanding that world leaders steer us away from a nuclear precipice.
![A dirtied and tread-upon portrait of Vladimir Putin is seen on the ground](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/09/2022_0928-VLADIMIR-PUTIN-400x300.jpg)
Chomsky: US Must Join Global Call for Negotiations as Russia Escalates Actions
There’s no certainty negotiations would result in peace, but as Chomsky says, there is only one way to find out: Try.
![Joe Biden leans on a podium while speaking into a handheld mic](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/2022_0706-biden-400x300.jpg)
Noam Chomsky: The “Historic” NATO Summit in Madrid Shored Up US Militarism
The expansion of NATO to include the newly created Indo-Pacific “sentinel states” is proof the U.S. empire doesn't rest.
![Instead of Deescalation, NATO Chooses Expansion While Declaring China a Threat](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/seg1-nato-400x300.jpg)
Instead of Deescalation, NATO Chooses Expansion While Declaring China a Threat
NATO countries are overemphasizing Russia or China as enemies though threats to democracy seem to be primarily internal.